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Edgar Barroso
Aaron Berkowitz
Jean-François Charles Ashley Fure José-Luis Hurtado Ulrich Kreppein Hannah Lash Karola Obermüller
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Adam Roberts Dominique Schafer Sasha Siem Bert Van Herck Gabriele VanoniTolga Yayalar Hillary Zipper
 
Tolga Yayalar (Turkey) Yayalar studied Jazz Composition at Berklee College of Music. He is currently a PhD candidate at Harvard University. He has studied with Ilhan Usmanbas, Bernard Rands, Harrison Birtwistle and Julian Anderson. He has also attended master classes with Chaya Czernowin, Magnus Lindberg and Georg Friedrich Haas. Yayalar played electric guitar in rock and jazz bands before taking up composition. Upon his encounter with the music of Webern, his first serious works incorporated serialism with jazz. Since then, texture and timbre have always been in the center of his music. To overcome the harmonic and sonic limitations of the tempered system, his music focuses on different systems of microtonality. While harmonic series constitute the harmonic focal point of his compositions, he also fuses parts of the eastern tuning systems with the Western tradition. His music has been highly influenced by his interests in architecture, psychoanalysis and post-structural narrative. Ensembles and performers who have played Tolga's music include Ensemble FA, Ying Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, The Callithumpian Consort, Chamber Players of the League/ISCM, Istanbul New Music Ensemble, White Rabbit, Yesaroun Duo, Samuel Z. Solomon, Benjamin Schwartz and Cihat Askin. Audio: X X Personal Website: www.yayalar.comhttp://www.yayalar.comshapeimage_18_link_0
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